Developers reference

Here lies nitty-gritty information that will be needed by developers.

Contents:

• Developer notes
  • Change log
    • 28-Apr-24
    • 18-Apr-24
    • 20-Feb-24
    • 8-Dec-23
    • 28-Nov-23
  • To-do
    • Optimisation
    • Major structural development
    • Pre-processing development
    • Minor structural development
    • Galaxy physics modules to import from L-galaxies
    • Plotting developments
    • Documentation
    • Pedagogy
    • Testing
    • Known issues
  • C integration
    • Input and initialisation
    • Graph processing
    • C interface
  • Profiling
    • CPU time
    • Memory usage
  • Results
    • Minimal physics implementation
• Input graph file structure
  • Top level (/)
    • Attributes
    • Datasets
    • Groups
  • Graph_#/
    • Attributes
    • Datasets
• py-galaxies data structures: halos, subhalos and galaxies
  • Some terminology
  • Data structures
    • Graphs
    • Halos
    • Subhalos
    • Galaxies
  • Structure of the output files
    • Halos
    • Subhalos
    • Galaxies
• Book-keeping of halos, subhalos and galaxies
  • Looping over graphs and snapshots
  • Initialisation of halos and subhalos
  • Propagation of information from progenitors
• The galaxy formation model
  • Overview
    • Halos
    • Subhalos
    • Galaxies
  • Halos
    • Properties
    • Accretion
    • Reincorporation of ejected gas
    • Stripping
    • Cooling
  • Subhalos
    • Properties
    • Galaxy merging
    • Cooling
  • Galaxies
    • Properties
    • Star formation
    • Metal enrichment
    • Stellar feedback
    • Black hole growth and feedback
• Star formation histories
  • Tracking time in the code
  • Creating the SFH binning arrays
  • Merging SFH bins during galaxy evolution